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Claire

August 07, 2001 04:11PM

<HTML>Garrett

Well thanks for your reply; it is really useful to me. I have asked my library to order Paul Jordan’s Riddles of the Sphinx from our last discussion – but I’m still waiting for it.

Meanwhile I feel that I have underrepresented Schoch on the absence of evidence thing, so here’s another Voices quote: :-)

"The two Neolithic settlements known form Lower Egypt in the fifth millennium BC are less sophisticated than one would expect for the period. …….

Prehistorian Mary Settegast doubts this is the case. ‘It has never seemed logical that the Nile Valley would be almost uninhabited during a period when lands to the east and west of Egypt were experiencing great advances in population and cultural development.’ she writes. ‘Moreover, the relative backwardness of the two Neolithic settlements which then do appear in fifth millennium Northern Egypt (Faiyum and Merimde) is not what one expects of the times, and several archaeologists now suspect that both may actually have been marginal settlements, perhaps of Libyan Bedouin …… rather than true representatives of the cultural level of fifth-millennium Lower Egypt.’

In fact, other evidence from ancient Egypt, though scant, adds to the notion that the remnants for predynastic culture lies undiscovered beneath the waters of the Mediterranean or the accumulated soil of thousands of Nile floods. An intriguing example is the so-called Libyan palette, a predynastic (circa 3100-300 BC) artwork on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The palette shows seven structures that look like fortified cities located along the western edge of the Nile Delta. If we take this palette as credible evidence – and there is no reason not to – it clearly indicated the existence of cities in predynastic times. However, no such cities have been uncovered. Very possibly they lie buried under the shifting desert sands, the accumulated Nile silt, or the invading waters of the Mediterranean.” (Voices)

>>OK pottery found under blocks carved for but unused in the Sphinx sort of seals it for me.

I have to admit that I didn’t know of this evidence – back to the drawing board!

It's always useful to get a new view on something - your first point is one I have been looking for - I'll take some time out from this discussion to work it out in my head :-)

Thanks again

Claire</HTML>

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Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 06, 2001 02:08PM
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Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 10:16AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	JoeRoyle	August 07, 2001 10:29AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 11:20AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 01:20PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 02:14PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 03:18PM
Re: Thanks	Claire	August 07, 2001 04:11PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	ISHMAEL	August 08, 2001 09:29AM
Re: Ishmael	Claire	August 08, 2001 11:27AM
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Re: Reasons for a new path	Litz	August 07, 2001 03:24PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 04:19PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 06, 2001 03:47PM
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Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 07, 2001 10:24AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 07, 2001 07:36AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 09:38AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Katherine Reece	August 07, 2001 10:15AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 07, 2001 02:19PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 02:28PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 03:26PM
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Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:37AM
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